Healthcare DIVE February 15, 2017
Dive Brief:
- The federal government proposed a rule on Wednesday aimed at helping to stabilize the ACA individual and small group insurance markets.
- It proposes to expand pre-enrollment verification, provide more flexibility with offering coverage options, shorten the open enrollment period in the individual market for the 2018 plan year, among other changes.
- The proposals come the day after Humana announced it will fully exit the ACA market for 2018 because it sees “further signs of an unbalanced risk pool.” While Humana was never a large player in the ACA markets, it is one of the first major insurers to completely exit them.
Dive Insight:
Many of the major health insurers have been scaling back their ACA participation...
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